Max Klinger (1857-1920)
"Zwei Studienköpfe (Junge Frau und Otto Greiner)" ["Study of Two Heads (Otto Greiner and a Young Woman)"]
1906/1907
pastel on brownish wove paper
76 x 71 cm
inscribed, probably by an unknown hand, in reddish-brown pencil lower right: "MK im Queroval" [MK in a Cross Oval]
framed
The Daulton Collection
Provenance:
Collection of Karl Ströher (1890-1977), Darmstadt
J. Weiner, Munich, auction, July 3, 2002, lot 81
Hampel, Munich, auction, December 6, 2002, lot 633
Ketterer, Munich, auction, June 6, 2003, lot 53
Collection of Siegfried Unterberger (1941-), Meran (Merano), Italy
Exhibition History:
Max Klinger. Sogni e segreti di un simbolista, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), 2005, Abb. S. 122;
Von der herben Zartheit schöner Formen. Max Klinger: Werke aus der Sammlung Siegfried Unterberger und aus Museen Thüringens und Sachsens, Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, 2009/10 und Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg 2011, Kat.-Nr. 12, Abb. S. 42.
"Max Klinger. Sogni e segreti di un simbolista," Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Mart Trento, Palazzo delle Albere, April 9-September 26, 2005.
"Von der herben Zartheit schöner Formen. Max Klinger: Werke aus der Sammlung Siegfried Unterberger und aus Museen Thüringens und Sachsens," Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, September 12-December 19, 2010, and Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, January 21-April 24, 2011.
"Max Klinger und die Universität Leipzig. Das verlorene Aulawandbild im Kontext," University of Leipzig, Galerie im Neuen Augusteum, October 15, 2021-January 22, 2022.
Publication History:
Alessandra Tiddia, et al., Max Klinger. Sogni e segreti di un simbolista (Lana, BZ, Italy: Tappeiner edizioni and Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 2005), ill. at pg. 122.
Hans-Dieter Mück, et al., Von der herben Zartheit schöner Formen. Max Klinger: Werke aus der Sammlung Siegfried Unterberger und aus Museen Thüringens und Sachsens (2010), Volume I (of II), Cat. Nr. 12, ill. at pg. 42.
Rudolf Hiller von Gaertringen and Connie Dietrich, eds., Max Klinger und die Universität Leipzig: Das verlorene Aulawandbild im Kontext (Leipzig: Passage-Verlag, 2021), pgs. 32 and 113-114, ill. 25 at pg. 32, Cat. No. 19.
Discussion:
With an expert opinion by Dr. Renate Hartleb, Leipzig, dated August 6, 2003.
This is a rare and important preparatory drawing depicting two members of a group (one model being Klinger's main acolyte, artist Otto Greiner) listening to Homer, a cartoon for the monumental mural "Hellas (Die Blüte Griechenlands)" ["Hellas (The Prime of Greece)"] at the assembly hall of the University of Leipzig (1909); the mural was destroyed in December 1943 during an air raid.
